
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.

as Agnieszka

as Mateusz Birkut / Maciek Tomczyk

as Jerzy Burski

as Jerzy Burski (young)

as Witek

as Michalak

as Jodła

as Hanka Tomczyk

as Editor

as TV Editor

as Leonard Zajączkowski, Agnieszka's DP

as Sound Man

as Agnieszka's Father

as Museum Worker

as Hanka's Husband

as UB Colonel

as Colonel's Secretary

as Blonde

as Judge

as Prosecutor


as Marcin Pawlusiak

as Engineer Moniak

as Zakopane Houseekeper

as Chronicle Sound Man

as Mieczysław Hertz

as ZMP Meeting Chairman

as Agnieszka's Driver

as Photojournalist in Okęcie

as Boardroom Member

as Construction Technician

as Marysia's Guardian

as Jan Wołodkiewicz

as Film Director (uncredited)

as Party Member from Warsaw (uncredited)

as Man talking with Burski in Okęcie (uncredited)

as Party Member congratulating Birkut (uncredited)

as Worker (uncredited)

as Organiser of Birkut's Demonstration in Żabinka Mała (uncredited)

as Judge (uncredited)

as Chronicle Narrator (voice)

as Record Beating Announcer (voice)

as Woman talking with Birkut on a Recording (voice) (uncredited)